On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > Note that blitting isn't always a time-saver. If most of your image is > animated and there is very little static background information, the > overhead of blitting will impact your rendering performance. However, for > most purposes of matplotlib, blitting will improve animation performance.
Just to note here: a lot of time in matplotlib is spent rendering axes, ticks, and tick labels. So even if the plot elements can't be cached, animation performance can be *vastly* improved just by eliminating the drawing of those things. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
